Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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