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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)