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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Bellevue University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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