Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in blended learning technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Czech Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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