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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in elearning make it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to take classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Learning Theory (education)