Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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