Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in blended learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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