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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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