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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like French Southern and Antarctic Lands to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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