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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology have made it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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