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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in elearning have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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