Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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