Learn more about the cutting-edge new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Education