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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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