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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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