Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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