Find out more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology enable learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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