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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are enabling students all around the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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