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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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