Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have enabled learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Honduras to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)