Find out more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are normally free for students 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 issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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