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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational ventures. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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