Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally 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 numerous issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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