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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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