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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology are enabling students all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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