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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Svalbard to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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