Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners 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 a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Dominican Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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