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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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