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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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