Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always 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 a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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