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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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