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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this developing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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