Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are 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 many issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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