Find out more about the thought-provoking new book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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