Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in e-learning have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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