Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not 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 issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Micronesia to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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