Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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