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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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