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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in blended learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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