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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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