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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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