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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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