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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly 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 a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Christmas Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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