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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in blended learning have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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