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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are typically 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 many issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ukraine to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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