Find out more about this edifying new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can institutions manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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