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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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