Find out more about the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education technology are enabling learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Open Educational MOOCs