Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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