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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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