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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning have enabled people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open education ventures. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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