Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not 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 subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Resources