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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online learning have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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