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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in elearning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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