Find out more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Philippines to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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