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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in elearning are enabling students all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better grasp these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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