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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in digital education technology are empowering humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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