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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that addresses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tonga to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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