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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This sensational new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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