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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently 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 technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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