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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Kitts and Nevis to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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