Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Learning Mooc