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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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