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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ross Dependency to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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