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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are almost always 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 topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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