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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in e-learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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