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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wellesley College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Educational Technology