Learn more about the interesting book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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