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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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