Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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