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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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