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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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