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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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