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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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