Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education are empowering learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open educational initiatives. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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