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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in blended learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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