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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education are empowering students all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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