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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online education make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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