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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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