Learn more about the appealing new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Dominica to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Digital Teaching Platform