Learn more about the book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in elearning technology enable students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like New Zealand to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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