Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open education endeavours. Trainers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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