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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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