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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ohio State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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