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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are normally 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. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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