Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Indonesia to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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