Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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