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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational Books