Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning enable humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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