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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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