Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest changes in elearning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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