Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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