Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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