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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology are making it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also talks about the key 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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