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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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