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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Aland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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