Find out more about the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants 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. MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UCSF to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand these open education endeavours. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Education MOOCs