Learn more about the engaging new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are enabling humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these exciting new open education ventures. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desire for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)