Find out more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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