Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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