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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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