Find out more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology make it possible for learners all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily 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 quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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