Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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