Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in blended learning are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Tonga to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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