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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also explores 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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