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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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