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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Great Basin College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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