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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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