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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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