Learn more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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