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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in learning technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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