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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in digital education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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