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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in digital education technology enable students in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students 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 many issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Poland to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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