Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. 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. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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