Learn more about this fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally 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 several subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Croatia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important 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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