Find out more about the impressive book MOOCs and Open Education

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in blended learning have empowered students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open education initiatives. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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