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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Scottsdale Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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