Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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