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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have made it possible for students all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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