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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in elearning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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