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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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