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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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