Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in blended learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open educational endeavours. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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