Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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