Learn more about this enlightening new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCs For College Credit