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

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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