Find out more about this informative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning enable learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tajikistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand these important new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

ELearning