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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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