Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Intellectuals want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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