Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Educational Technology