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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are customarily 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 online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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