Learn more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning enable people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are normally free for learners 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 many topics that elearning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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