Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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