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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students 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 quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Saint Martin to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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