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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Georgia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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