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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning make it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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