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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these intriguing new open education endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the key 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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