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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education have enabled learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are usually 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 online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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