Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning are enabling learners all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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