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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open education ventures. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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