Find out more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online 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 subjects that online learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johnston Atoll to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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