Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in blended learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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