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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education enable humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this growing need for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)