Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are considering today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education undertakings. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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