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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for data the gripping 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 authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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