Learn more about the illuminating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in elearning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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