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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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