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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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