Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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