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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which analyzes issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education initiatives. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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