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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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