Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Online Education