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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in blended learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)