Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are typically 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 variety of topics that elearning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open educational initiatives. Trainers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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