Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education enable people in nations all aver the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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