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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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