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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are generally 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 variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also describes the major 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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