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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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