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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in electronic education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are free 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 topics that online learning organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Dominica to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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