Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and many other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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