Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually 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 several topics that blended learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the key 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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