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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also addresses the major 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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