Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education ventures. Academics want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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