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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning enable people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better perceive these new open education ventures. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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