Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in blended learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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