Learn more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are considering now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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