Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these massive open online courses? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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