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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open educational endeavours. People want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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