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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which researches subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better grasp these open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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