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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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