Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in elearning have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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