Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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