Find out more about this exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning have made it possible for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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