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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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