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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these promising new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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