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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily 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 a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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