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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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