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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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