Find out more about the new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. 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 massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Martin to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCs Definition