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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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