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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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