Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily 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 a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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