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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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