Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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