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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

ELearning