Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are usually 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 lot of issues that online education institutions have to consider now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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