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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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