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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology enable learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these open education initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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