Learn more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in blended learning enable humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ross Dependency to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a need to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Educational Research