Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online learning make it possible for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are usually 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 topics that blended learning organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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