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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in digital education technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are customarily 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 numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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