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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like France to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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