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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic education technology have empowered humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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