Find out more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education are enabling learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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