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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning have empowered humans all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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