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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning enable people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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