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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses Definition