Learn more about this compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning enable people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Indonesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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