Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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