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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are free for learners 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 many issues that e-learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these fascinating new open education ventures. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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