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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning have empowered humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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