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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education