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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not 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 technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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