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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Korea, South to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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