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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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