Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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