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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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