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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in learning technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC classes 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 variety of subjects that blended learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Kazakhstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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