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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in blended learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education