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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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