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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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