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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open education ventures. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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