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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Jersey to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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