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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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