Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Learning Mooc