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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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