Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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