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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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