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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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