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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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