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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have enabled learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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