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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Chad to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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