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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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