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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? 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 institutions like Andorra to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Technology-enhanced Learning