Learn more about the breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes online. These massively open online courses are free 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 issues that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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