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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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