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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also articulates 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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