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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in classes online. 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 massive online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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