Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning are empowering humans all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open education experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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