Find out more about the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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