Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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