Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Best Practices