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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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