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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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