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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are customarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Morocco to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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