Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses