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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are typically 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 many topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the major 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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