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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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