Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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