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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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