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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in elearning have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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