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

MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCs Books