Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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