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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in distance learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to understand these compelling new open educational ventures. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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