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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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