Learn more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. 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 almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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