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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners 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 many topics that online education institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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