Learn more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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