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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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