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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in blended learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the 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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