Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning enable students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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