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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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