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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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