Learn more about this interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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