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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Suriname to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open education ventures. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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