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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like El Salvador to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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