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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Université Numérique France Université Numérique to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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