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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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