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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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