Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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