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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education enable learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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