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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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