Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in blended learning technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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