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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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