Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in online learning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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