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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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