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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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