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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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