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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are providing the means for learners all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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