Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses