Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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