Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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