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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology are enabling students in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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