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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning make it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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