Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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