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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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