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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in blended learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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