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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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