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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in blended learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are generally 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 many subjects that distance learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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