Find out more about the fascinating book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses 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 commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Gabon to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses