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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open education undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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