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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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