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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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