Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Paraguay to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to understand these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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