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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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