Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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