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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open education undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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