Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Isle of Man to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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