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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally 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 lot of subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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