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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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