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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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