Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning are empowering students in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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