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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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