Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education have enabled people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently 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 numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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