Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive need for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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