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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology enable students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to understand these new open educational experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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