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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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