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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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