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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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