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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently 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 blended learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Hong Kong to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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