Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online learning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these new open education initiatives. Universities want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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