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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also studies 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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