Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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