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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to understand these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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