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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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