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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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