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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that analyzes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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