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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online education have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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