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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in blended learning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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