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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology make it possible for humans in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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