Learn more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology enable learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Aruba to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to understand these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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