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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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