Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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