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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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