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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in blended learning technology make it possible for students all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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