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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning enable students all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Online Education