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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Baker Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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