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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like State University of New York to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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