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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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