Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions must deal with today because blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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