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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massive open courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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