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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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