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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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