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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in distance learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. 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. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mozambique to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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