Learn more about this illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Tanzania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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