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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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