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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are struggling with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado System to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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