Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOC Open Source