Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in e-learning have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Greece to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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