Find out more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these massive open online courses? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Education Books