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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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