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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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