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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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