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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in online education have empowered people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education