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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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