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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly 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 online learning organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to understand these significant new open education undertakings. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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