Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in blended learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Serbia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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