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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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