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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in electronic education technology enable students all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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