Learn more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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