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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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