Find out more about this interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education have empowered learners all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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