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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in elearning have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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