Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that blended learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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