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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in electronic educational technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Greenland to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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