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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Utah Valley University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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