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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines 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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