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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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