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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like American College of Education to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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