Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Albania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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