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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally 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 several issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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