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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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