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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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