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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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