Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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