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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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