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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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