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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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