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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources