Learn more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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