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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning have empowered humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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