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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in elearning are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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