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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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