Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOCs are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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