Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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