Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning enable learners all over the world to take online courses. 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 quite a few issues that online education institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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