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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in elearning are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also addresses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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