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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have enabled students all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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