Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This gripping new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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