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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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