Learn more about this engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always 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 numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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