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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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