Find out more about the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Moocs Definition