Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This book also addresses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education