Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning technology have enabled learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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