Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology enable learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always 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 institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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