Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? 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 institutions like Ball State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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