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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in e-learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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