Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in blended learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational MOOCs