Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning are empowering people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are normally free for learners 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 issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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