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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these open education initiatives. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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