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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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