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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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