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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in elearning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants want to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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