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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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