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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology make it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better perceive these open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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