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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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