Learn more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning enable learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to understand these interesting new open educational initiatives. Students want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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