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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students 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 a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Everybody wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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