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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. 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. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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