Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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