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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are 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 several issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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