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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like State University of New York to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this growing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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