Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. MOOC courses are generally free 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 online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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