Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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