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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bermuda to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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