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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better perceive these significant new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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