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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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