Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning make it possible for humans all over the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)