Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in elearning technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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