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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in electronic educational technology enable humans all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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