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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online learning enable humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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