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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to understand these important new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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