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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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