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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online learning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free for learners 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 quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to understand these open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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