Learn more about the impressive new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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