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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology enable students all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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