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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning enable people all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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