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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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