Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning are enabling learners all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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