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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to know how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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