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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Instructors want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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