Find out more about this educative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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