Learn more about the enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Utah State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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