Find out more about this breathtaking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in online learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational MOOCs