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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC 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 numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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