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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Macedonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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