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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always 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 have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these new open educational ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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