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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations must deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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