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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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