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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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