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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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