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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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