Learn more about this scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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