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

MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Congo, (Congo  – Kinshasa) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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