Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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