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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants need to understand these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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