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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in digital education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Venezuela to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs) Definition