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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)