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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology have empowered humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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