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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology have empowered learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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