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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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