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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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