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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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