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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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