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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students 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 a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand these significant new open education ventures. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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