Learn more about the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in blended learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better perceive these significant new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources