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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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