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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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