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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Luxembourg to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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