Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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