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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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