Learn more about the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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