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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are enabling students in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting 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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