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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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