Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest changes in blended learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also describes the most important 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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