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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Public servants want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses 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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