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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are considering now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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