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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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