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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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