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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in digital education technology enable people all around the world to take part in classes online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Australian Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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