Learn more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a need to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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