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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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