Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance 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 ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Central Florida to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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