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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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