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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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