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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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