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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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