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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning are providing the means for students in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. 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 massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Seattle Central Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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