Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in e-learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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