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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in online learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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