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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire 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 reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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