Learn more about the fascinating new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Mexico to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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