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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Educators want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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