Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in blended learning technology have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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