Find out more about this book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOC Massively Open Online Course