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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in blended learning technology are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally 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 numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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