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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online 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 quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Korea, South to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better perceive these new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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