Learn more about the compelling new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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