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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in distance learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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