Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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