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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in distance learning enable people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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