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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Great Basin College to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Education