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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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