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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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