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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology enable humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Guam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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