Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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