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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Guyana to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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