Find out more about this thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Distance Educational Journals