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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in blended learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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