Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free 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 numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOC Massive Open Online Course