Learn more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning enable students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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