Learn more about this impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology enable students all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational ventures. Universities want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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