Find out more about the educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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