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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? This open education book offers guidelines for others hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning experience. How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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