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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in online classes. 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. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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