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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in elearning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners 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 quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better perceive these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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