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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic educational technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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