Find out more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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