Find out more about this new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest developments in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Electronic Educational Technology