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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these open education experiments. Students want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also explores 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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