Find out more about this impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in blended learning enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Broward College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these new open education initiatives. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Resources