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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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