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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part 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. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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