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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic educational technology make it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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