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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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