Find out more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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