Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book describes the best practices in blended learning based on decades of research. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education ventures. Professors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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