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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are empowering learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to consider now that distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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