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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational ventures. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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