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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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