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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in digital education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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