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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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