Learn more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that elearning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Distance Educational Journals