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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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