Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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