Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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