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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are generally free for students 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 several issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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