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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The New School to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers 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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