Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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