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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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