Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Syria to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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